What's Your Most Recent NSV

Brans34

My son an I completed our first 5K together since completing our C25K program, in under 35 minutes. I am so proud of both of us! Mom came to visit, so we hadn't been running in 2ish weeks, so I was kinda worried. We both ran the entire time.

MrsKaraAmie

This is my first time posting, but I've been reading a lot of your NSV's. Congratulations to you all!

I'm only starting my journey. On May 1, 2017, at 34 years old, I weighed 329lbs and I decided I needed to change my life.

I started using MFP to track my calories and doing water aerobics 3 times a week and walking whatever chance I got. Since May 1, I have had a couple of indulgent meals (for Mother's Day), but I have tried to bank up calories so it doesn't throw off my whole week. I'm trying not to look at this like a diet, but rather a change of lifestyle. I try not to limit myself too much for fear that I will just crave, crave crave. Instead of eating whatever and however much I want of something, I divvy out a portion and that's all I eat.

I have seen some difference in the scale (I've seen the scale as low as 311, but it fluctuates quite a bit). I have had many more NSVs.

The biggest one is that I've lost a ton of inches. When I started my journey, I measured 14 different places on my body from my neck to my ankles. Once a week, my coworker helps me keep track and measures me again. Since May 1, I've lost 24.25 inches. I can already feel clothes starting to fit differently. I haven't gone down any sizes yet, but shirts that fit perfectly before are now hanging lower and way looser.

Exercise has become a big part of my life. I do swim aerobics most of the time. I love being in water and I feel like water aerobics is not too difficult until I lose more weight. I'd like to try Zumba at some point. I also have taken to walking laps around a big empty room in my office building on my lunch break and 15-minute breaks.

My kids are realizing that exercise in important to me. When I get in the car with my daughter in the morning, she asks "are we going to the gym?" For mother's day, my son made me a card where they fill in answers to the questions the teacher has made. "My mom likes going to the gym," was one of his answers. And he drew a picture of me in my swim suit

I've also been posting pictures of what I eat and selfies to track progress on instagram, and I am suddenly getting a lot of followers. That is definitely a motivator.

I have a LONG way to go. I know it won't be easy. But my dream is to be one of those people that "lost half their body weight" at some point.

Thanks for reading, and great job to everyone!

Cyndi1010

Yesterday boss ordered Pizza for the whole store...I ate the tuna sandwich I had packed. Today was a weigh in day I had started my period so totally expected to have gained and best case stayed the same. I had lost an additional 2lbs!!!!!!!! I know that's a scale victory but couldn't help myself. The pants I am wearing today were supertight a couple weeks ago, very comfortable today.

runningjen74

I did a 10 minute test on the Assault bike (bike from hell) back in December, and got 78 calories. Retested on friday after seriously increasing my conditioning....105 calories!!! Delighted!

Puzzl3dunicorn

My son is going to be six months old tomorrow and we're getting family photos done. For said photos, I got this dress three weeks ago that is relatively form fitting and wasn't really flattering at all when I first got it. I kept it but left the tags on thinking that I'd exchange it for a bigger one if it didn't fit by this weekend. I only lost about 5 lbs but I look and feel so much better in it and I'm so stoked to wear it tomorrow!

JeromeBarry1

You'll still never see them, but I finally decided that my lg briefs were too loose and moved down to size M. It's a perfectly comfortable fit. You might see that I also bought the first swim trunks of my life in size M. I need them for a hydrostatic bf test next week. If 55 too old to learn to swim?

jlbarker1

I think that one thing that I would consider a NSV is that I am actually wanting to do some sort of exercise and that I am actually making better food choices without overthinking it. It is becoming natural.

goldthistime

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

You'll still never see them, but I finally decided that my lg briefs were too loose and moved down to size M. It's a perfectly comfortable fit. You might see that I also bought the first swim trunks of my life in size M. I need them for a hydrostatic bf test next week. If 55 too old to learn to swim?

No, 55 isn't too old to learn to swim. Go for it.

AnnPT77

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

You'll still never see them, but I finally decided that my lg briefs were too loose and moved down to size M. It's a perfectly comfortable fit. You might see that I also bought the first swim trunks of my life in size M. I need them for a hydrostatic bf test next week. If 55 too old to learn to swim?

I took adult learn-to-swim classes at age 47. 55 isn't appreciably older in any meaningful sense, as far as I'd guess, especially as my 47 was not that long after cancer treatment that included 6 months of chemotherapy. I'm not sufficiently motivated to swim enough to get genuinely good at it, but I can lap swim (slowly) now if/when I want to. (I need to be able to swim because I'm a rower, and a 12" wide boat can flip over pretty easily. Learned to row at 47, too. )

Go for it. Lifeguard and instructor won't let you drown, so what's the worst that could happen?

nFoooo

JeromeBarry1 wrote: »

You'll still never see them, but I finally decided that my lg briefs were too loose and moved down to size M. It's a perfectly comfortable fit. You might see that I also bought the first swim trunks of my life in size M. I need them for a hydrostatic bf test next week. If 55 too old to learn to swim?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-swimming-blog/2014/jan/02/learning-to-swim-fear-of-swimming


Quote from the article : "I have taught people of all ages and from all walks of life. My oldest pupil was an 87-year-old lady who was also blind. She said she had always wanted to learn to swim but had never got round to it. At the end of one lesson I got her to swim through a hoop floating in the water. It was a lovely moment."

everher

I think my greatest NSV is I'm still here. I started this journey in October and I'm still here.

I've had some bad days, some bad weeks, and a couple of bad months...but I'm still here.

Also, went shopping because of all the sales going on right now and there was a shirt I liked but they only had it in a medium. I decided to try it, but was discouraged because I knew the medium wouldn't fit....

The medium fit. I almost didn't buy it because I just couldn't get over that I fit into a medium. It's like I was seeing it, but I couldn't believe it. It's form fitting, not exactly snug, but I figure another 5-10 pounds will make it just right.

NewBetterBest18

I'm beginning to like shopping for clothes for myself, first time in decades. Today I bought a shirt 2 sizes smaller than what I was 2 months ago and it's actually a little loose! I can't wait to go back.

amtyrell

I am not sure if victory or failure. I tried to buy shorts today and tried on pairs at lots of stores. 14 is to big 12 to small but given a few months ago I was wearing 18 and they were tight I will call this successful

SexyGamerGal

I picked up a pair of 14W capris and they fit started out at a 24W and I started out at a 3x just bought multiple Large shirts some medium and XLs are starting to get baggy

Madwife2009

My heart rate used to regularly spike into the 170's during my hilly cycle rides.

It hasn't gone beyond 163 bpm for the last four weeks.

That means I'm getting fitter, right?

NanP135

runningjen74 wrote: »

I did a 10 minute test on the Assault bike (bike from hell) back in December, and got 78 calories. Retested on friday after seriously increasing my conditioning....105 calories!!! Delighted!

That is awesome Assault bike riding is incredible workout

Verity1111

I walked around in a t-shirt today, outside, with no hoodie. I don't know if I have done that even in the last year - even if it was over 90* F outside.

RuthanneBowers

To start off, I want to say great job to everyone! I am encouraged and re-motivated every time I read this thread -
it is definitely my favorite one out there!

No matter how small it may seem to others, every NSV is worth celebrating if it means something to you. That is something I have to continually remind myself when I start to worry about my "small" NSV's.

So here goes for last week:

1) I did not drink coffee on four days last week. This is something I am working on because I don't actually like the taste of coffee and add lots of milk and sugar to it to make it taste good.

2) I walked most days.

3) I did strength exercises in arms, legs, and abs.

4) I tracked food one day - I was aiming for two, but I need to be grateful for any that I did.

5) I ate a salad one day.

6) On my fitbit, I got 6 250's on Saturday and Sunday. Those are the days it is hardest to get the 250 in.

7) I think on 5 days I got 8 sets of stairs or more.

8) I finally fit into one of my favorite dresses again. There is a graduation ceremony I am hoping to wear it to next week so I need to be extra careful right now.

Well, that's it. I told myself to focus on the things above and not the number on the scale. If I do the things above, then the number on the scale will change. But if it doesn't, I can still feel proud of how I am getting my body more healthy.

PS - for anyone wondering, cause it seems like someone often is, NSV stands for "Non-Scale Victory".

__TMac__

Goodwill success!
- Old Navy shorts. Size 12.
- 2 JCrew tshirts. Size M.

That is a 20-year low.

sunflowerhippi

pushed a motor at the gym on a sled.

CMini07

Being able to tighten my regulation seatbelt on the airplane (used to almost need an extender, and now I can tighten it a LOT since losing 70 lbs this year)

runningjen74

I decided to do something hard, something I didn't think I could complete and did it. I rowed a marathon distance on the ergometer, 42195 meters, taking me just over 3 hours 50 minutes. I'm back on the weight loss band wagon, I was eating far greater quantities while I was training to fuel workouts.

The real victory in doing this is now there is a self belief that I will lose the weight and keep it off. There are no ifs ands or buts, simply it will happen. Sure there will be bumps, but I'll just have to continue with the plan and modify as required.

Locket1998

Managed to complete a 5k mud race including scaling a 12 ft climbing wall! Certainly wouldn't have been able to do that six months ago! :-)

__TMac__

runningjen74 wrote: »

I decided to do something hard, something I didn't think I could complete and did it. I rowed a marathon distance on the ergometer, 42195 meters, taking me just over 3 hours 50 minutes. I'm back on the weight loss band wagon, I was eating far greater quantities while I was training to fuel workouts.

The real victory in doing this is now there is a self belief that I will lose the weight and keep it off. There are no ifs ands or buts, simply it will happen. Sure there will be bumps, but I'll just have to continue with the plan and modify as required.

@runningjen74 - Wow! That's really far. I rowed a half-mary early this month and was very pleased with myself. Congrats!

I really like your attitude. Excellent.

runningjen74

@TmacMMM ah, thanks. You're half way there If you wanted to do you you could do it easily. Having said that, a half Marathon is a real achievement and you should be proud of yourself!

Madwife2009

1) Day 2 Week 6 of C25K complete. It was 2 x 10-minute runs and so much harder than the continuous 20-minute run! But we got through it. As far as I can determine the remaining workouts are all continuous runs, no intervals so it should be better

2) I am a bit of a numbers geek. I like figures, and statistics and other fun stuff like that. My children definitely dislike my love of maths. Anyway, I digress. I like numbers and have been keeping track of all of my deliberate exercise over the last few months on a spreadsheet, which is set up to automatically add the entries up, etc (I do graphs as well).

My spreadsheet, up until today, only had tabs for walking and cycling. Today I added one for "Running". That is something I never thought that I'd see connected with me and exercise

FasterBehr

Madwife2009 wrote: »

1) Day 2 Week 6 of C25K complete. It was 2 x 10-minute runs and so much harder than the continuous 20-minute run! But we got through it. As far as I can determine the remaining workouts are all continuous runs, no intervals so it should be better

2) I am a bit of a numbers geek. I like figures, and statistics and other fun stuff like that. My children definitely dislike my love of maths. Anyway, I digress. I like numbers and have been keeping track of all of my deliberate exercise over the last few months on a spreadsheet, which is set up to automatically add the entries up, etc (I do graphs as well).

My spreadsheet, up until today, only had tabs for walking and cycling. Today I added one for "Running". That is something I never thought that I'd see connected with me and exercise

I have to admit to keeping a spreadsheet also. I looked back at it yesterday and saw an entry from July last year which read "first day of NHS C25K today. Started at week 3. Not too bad". I was 22st 11lb then. Now I run 3 times a week, sometimes more and usually 10K distances. I'm at 201 lbs now.

My NSV this week - my son was telling me about the basic fitness test for the Army that he's working to. The running test requires something like running 1.5 miles in under 14 minutes. Well, I had to have a go didn't I? Needless to say I did it in less which left me feeling pretty chuffed with myself.

cordney

Today I ran for 5 minutes!! I only meant to do a minute but I just kept going. I'm going to look for running shoes today.

I really needed this nsv today because he scale is a traitorous *kitten* lately.

motivatedsister

Finished week 4 of C25K today! Those last 5 minutes were torture lol...but I did increase the speed on the last segment so maybe that had something to do with it as well. The weeks have literally flown by! I can't believe I'll be starting week 5 on Wednesday...nervous and excited!

Spiyce

I walked six miles, and got my mother to go with me!